Never trust a “best of steampunk” list (unless it’s one of mine.) The genre is so eclectic and quirky that there are bound to be entries that aren’t steampunk at all. I found Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl in “10 Best Steampunk Novels 2019” on bookconsumers.com. The title sounds right and the cover hints at […]
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Steampunk Classics: Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
The young adult novel Leviathan, published in 2009, is a good entry point for anyone interested in trying out the steampunk genre. It’s a great fit for the steampunk aesthetic, full of gadgets and amazing inventions that never were. The setting is in Europe, a few years past the Victorian Era in the nineteen-teens just […]